On Apr 16, 10:01 am, gerhard.hellrie...@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel) wrote: > You should not do all in one step. First level should be the macro. To be > sure that the macro produces what you want, use the MPRINT (or MACROGEN)

MACROGEN is out of date now. You won't find it in the sas documentation. They expect you to use MPRINT instead.

> option. With that you see what the macro produces (or not). > Second thing, if you assume that the right code is produces, but the > contents of macro variables are not that what you expect, use SYMBOLGEN. > If that is ok, the logic might be not ok: MLOGIC. Do NOT use all that > options together! Your log is full and you won't find what you're looking > for. > There are some others, look in the docu for that. > > Second is a data-step and 7 or procs. > Options source source2 (to see includes) notes. Some others like MSGLEVEL > for example, all are for more or less informations in the log. > > For the datastep there is a real debugger available: > > data test / debug; > > you can then step through the code, watch variable contents and follow the > logic of the program flow. That might be the last thing, if pure thinking > and code review does not help. > > Gerhard > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:47:12 -0400, Jayakumar Ramachandra > > > > <jayakumarre...@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >what system options can you use to debug a SAS program? > >debugging here is debugging in sas datastep, sas proc and sas macros.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -